Caught on camera: These two penguins stumbled upon a camera in Antarctica and promptly took a selfie

More by accident than design, perhaps, but as good a video selfie as you’ll get anywhere.

#Penguin#selfie offers bird’s eye view of life in Antarctica! Curious Emperors have been captured on film at the Auster Rookery near Australia’s Mawson research station by expeditioner 📷 Eddie Gault pic.twitter.com/MYle5Fshc7

Australian Antarctic explorer Eddie Gault had left his camera behind when he went off to explore a rookery. Who was going to steal it in this uninhabited land?

Steal, no. But take selfies? When Gault returned and glanced idly at the video roll, he was amazed to discover its contents. Uploaded by the Australian Antarctic Division, the video he found is described thus: “Curious Emperors have been captured on film at the Auster Rookery near Australia’s Mawson research station by expeditioner by Eddie Gault”.

Two inquisitive emperor penguins stumbled upon the camera and looked into it with what appears to be the clear intention of taking selfie. Well, maybe not, but the collective shake of head at the end is certainly telling.